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Twelve programmes of verse translations from Homer specially made by contemporary poets
2: Circe
BOOK X
Translated by Ian Fletcher
Read by Patrick Garland
Series devised by Louis MacNeice Produced by Anthony Thwaite
: second broadcast

Contributors

Translated By:
Ian Fletcher
Read By:
Patrick Garland
Produced By:
Anthony Thwaite

PATRICIA CLARK (soprano)
GRAYSTON BURGESS. ALFRED DELLER and JOHN WHITWORTH (counter-tenor)
JOHN CAMERON (bass)
LONDON CHAMBER SINGERS and ORCHESTRA
Leader. Lionel Bentley
Conductor. ANTHONY BERNARD
Continuo:
Charles Spinks (harpsichord) and John Shinebourne (cello)

Contributors

Soprano:
Patricia Clark
Soprano:
Grayston Burgess.
Soprano:
Alfred Deller
Soprano:
John Whitworth
Bass:
John Cameron
Conductor:
Anthony Bernard
Harpsichord:
Charles Spinks
Harpsichord:
John Shinebourne

by BERTOLT BRECHT
English version by CHARLOTTE and A. L. LLOYD
Songs composed by HANS-DIETER HOSALLA
Incidental music composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE with Siobhan McKenna as Joan Dark
Frank Pettingell
Beatrix Lehmann , Malcolm Hayes
In the Chicago of the late twenties a girl of the Black Straw Hats organisation, pained by the poverty and suffering of the workers who are buffeted by the inexplicable financial ups-and-downs of the meat markets, decides to' search out the mainsprings of prosperity and poverty.
CAST
Speaker, Catherine Dolan ; Commentator, Martin Starkie
Joan Dark , Siobhan McKenna : Paulus Snyder , Martha, and A girl (the Black Straw Hats). Charles Leno , Catherine Dolan , and Penelope Lee: Mulberry, a landlord, Derek Birch
Pierpont Mauler , meat king, Frank Pettingell ; Sullivan Slift ,his broker, Malcolm Hayes : Cridle, Graham, Meyers, and Lennox (meat packers), Geoffrey Wincott , Leslie Perrins , Rolf Lefebvre. and David Bird
Mri. Luckerniddle, a worker's wife, Beatrix Lehmann ; Gloomb, Michael Turner ; A waiter, Nigel Anthony ; Mrs. Swingurn Eithne Dunne; An apprentice, Jon Rollason ; A workers' leader, Gabriel Woolf
A detective, John Bennett
Songs by the cast with a section, of the Ambrosian. Singers
Music conducted by Humphrey Searle
The play edited for radio and produced by H. B. FORTUIN
: second broadcast
DURING THE INTERVAL (9.10-9.20 app.) A record of movements from
Dance Suite (Edward Kiinneke ) played by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer

Contributors

Unknown:
A. L. Lloyd
Composed By:
Humphrey Searle
Unknown:
Siobhan McKenna
Unknown:
Joan Dark
Unknown:
Frank Pettingell
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Catherine Dolan
Unknown:
Martin Starkie
Unknown:
Joan Dark
Unknown:
Siobhan McKenna
Unknown:
Paulus Snyder
Unknown:
Charles Leno
Unknown:
Catherine Dolan
Unknown:
Derek Birch
Unknown:
Pierpont Mauler
Unknown:
Frank Pettingell
Unknown:
Sullivan Slift
Unknown:
Malcolm Hayes
Unknown:
Geoffrey Wincott
Unknown:
Leslie Perrins
Unknown:
Rolf Lefebvre.
Unknown:
David Bird
Unknown:
Beatrix Lehmann
Unknown:
Michael Turner
Unknown:
Nigel Anthony
Unknown:
Jon Rollason
Leader:
Gabriel Woolf
Unknown:
John Bennett
Conducted By:
Humphrey Searle
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Unknown:
Edward Kiinneke

Quintet for wind and piano played by the Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble Gareth Morris (flute)
Stephen Waters (clarinet' Cecil James (bassoon) Barry Tuckwell (horn)
Patrick Piggott (piano)
: second broadcast

Contributors

Clarinet:
Stephen Waters
Bassoon:
Cecil James
Horn:
Barry Tuckwell
Piano:
Patrick Piggott

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